CLE: SFFA v. Harvard/UNC: Defending Diversity on the 2022 Supreme Court Docket

  • 21 Oct 2022
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Zoom

Registration

  • includes one-year free membership in NLG-NYC

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National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter

 
and

Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)

present

SFFA v. Harvard/UNC:

Defending Diversity on the 2022 Supreme Court Docket

An Online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program and discussion about the affirmative action cases likely to define the Court’s new term.

Non-transitional NY CLE.  1.5 NY CLE Credits in Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias (pursuant to NY CLE Board Regulations, available only for experienced attorneys admitted 2-years or more);  

Friday, October 21, 2022

3pm-4:30pm (Eastern time)

Program fees: 

Free for Law Students, Law Faculty, SALT & NLG members

$50 for non-member attorneys seeking NY CLE credit

(which includes one-year NLG-NYC membership)


fee waivers upon request to nlgnyc@igc.org

Registration required

Live Webcast Format: Webcasting information provided upon registration

Speakers (in alphabetical order):

DEBORAH ARCHER – president of the national ACLU;  Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at New York University School of Law;

CORINTHIA CARTER – president of the Legal Services Staff Association-LSSA 2320 (UAW), the “wall-to-wall” union representing the secretaries, paralegals, receptionists, process servers, social workers and attorneys of Legal Services NYC;  board member of The NLG-NYC Chapter Foundation;

VICTOR GOODE – Professor Emeritus at CUNY School of Law;  former Executive Director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and founder of the Bakke-era Affirmative Action Coordinating Committee;

VINAY HARPALANI – Lee and Leon Karelitz Chair in Evidence and Procedure and Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law;  member Society of American Law Teachers Board of Governors;

MODERATOR:  OLYMPIA DUHART – co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers; Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University College of Law.


The National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of Continuing Legal Education in New York State.  Under CLE Regulations, credit will be offered only to attorneys completing the entire program.  We regret we are unable to offer CLE credit for jurisdictions outside New York.  For attorneys admitted in a jurisdiction other than New York, consult your jurisdiction’s CLE rules to learn if reciprocal CLE credit is available for a NY program.